Aborted panel.
From the sketchbooks of Gary Panter.
This is one of my favorite comics in the world.
Janice and Courtney and the rest of the Sea Cottage Girls packed slowly, but with steady urgency. Meredith (Sea Cottage Girl Number Seven) tasted the sand, and Jerusalem (Sea Cottage Girl Number Five) reacted angrily.
“Don’t taste the sand!” Jerusalem screamed.
“Shut up girls, shut up!” said Diamond Sunup (Sea Cottage Girl Number One). “There’s something wrong with the sea!”
“What do you mean, wrong with the SEA?” said Jerusalem.
“She’s right,” said Filldown (Sea Cottage Girl Number Fifteen). “It’s different. It’s changing.”
“SEA IS CHANGING, CAWWWW, SEA IS CHANGING!” said Uncle Sandwich, the Sea Cottage Girls’ trusty mascot parrot.
“I hate you, Uncle Sandwich,” said Jerusalem.
“SEA IS CHANGING TO COLOR RED, WORLD CLOSING IN, CLOUDS GETTING MILKED, FEAR IN HEARTS, GIRLS, CAWWWWWWW, FEAR IN HEARTS!”
“We hate you, Uncle Sandwich,” said all nineteen of the girls in unison.
I’ve been working at a deli in a grocery store for 10 months. I’ve been having a recurring dream that I work in a deli in a church. I wish I could draw a 24-page comic every day. It’s my 28th birthday tomorrow so I’m assuming I’ll sprout wings and join the Yukon tree workers association.
A spread from a comic I’m working on called “The Boardinghouse Reach.” These are pages 17 and 18.
I’m trying to draw a comic at 11″ x 24″ and it’s making me remember that I don’t know what I’m doing at all.
I had a dream about Mercer Mayer.
